Sunabesa of Lord Jagannath

CRPF to remain in Kandhamal till July 13
By Our Correspondent
BHUBANESWAR: Succumbing to the pressure of Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, the Union Home Ministry has extended the deployment of Central Para-Military Forces for another two weeks in riot hit tribal dominated Kandhamal district, highly placed police sources said on Saturday. More

Rajdhani Express delayed as Kalinga Sena blocks track
By Anurjay Dhal
BHUBANESWAR, July 4: The 2421 Bhubaneswar-New Delhi Rajdhani Express on Saturday delayed for about half an hour as members of Kalinga Sena led by its State chief Hemanta Rath blocked the track of platform no-1 here in city Railway Station. More

PROPOSED HARIDASPUR- PARADEEP RAILWAY PROJECT FACES STUMBLING BLOCK DUE TO FUND CRUNCH

ASHIS SENAPATI, KENDRAPADA,

The Railway minister Mamata Banerjee has thrown spanner in the works of the 82 km long proposed Haridashpur- Paradeep railway project by allotting a meager amount of70 crores in this railway budget for this ambitious project. Due to non-allotment of sufficient funds the works of project has been moving at a snail’s pace since a decade. In 1999 the railway authority estimated 540 crores to complete the project. But, the cost of the project was enhanced to Rs 600 last year. More

Doubt continues over JEE counselling continues
By Our Correspondent
BHUBANESWAR: The officials of Biju Patnaik University of Technology and the Committee of Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) might re-schedule the counselling, sources said on Saturday. About 85,000 students were expected to attend the counselling processes. More

Cops starts search operation to locate missing MLA
By Our Correspondent
CUTTACK: Unable to locate missing Athagarh MLA Ramesh Rout, police has formed as many as four squads to trace the legislator, who has been missing since June 20. More

Price hike exposed true face of Cong, lambasted BJD
By Anurjay Dhal
BHUBANESWAR: The ruling Biju Janata Dal on Friday came down heavily on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi over the hike of prices of petroleum products. The Government has hiked prices of petro and diesel by Rs 4 and Rs 2, respectively. More

Riot victims start home coming in Orissa 

By Our Correspondent 
BHUBANESWAR, June 30: Riot victims in Orissa’s tribal dominated Kandhamal district, who have been staying in various relief camps since August last year, have started home coming since the visit of Union Home Minister P Chidambaram, officials claimed on Tuesday. More

STR to launch modified Tiger tourism soon
By Our Correspondent
BHUBANESWAR, July 2: Officials manning the Similipal Tiger Reserve in Orissa’s Mayurbhanj district are reportedly contemplating to again launch Tiger Tourism to attract more visitors, sources said on Wednesday. More

SEAFOOD INDUSTRY IN ORISSA IN BAD SHAPE ASHIS SENAPATI, KENDRAPADA, DATE:- 4.7.09
The fate of large numbers of shrimp farmers including seafood exporters hang in balance thanks to the slipshod attitude of the fishery department of the, said Gorachanda Mohanty the president of Orissa chapter of Sea Food Exporters’ Association of India on Saturday. More

Orissa Govt dismissed AC of CT
By Our Correspondent
CUTTACK, July 2: The Orissa Government has dismissed Asst Commissioner of Commercial Taxes (Appeal), Cuttack-I Range, Cuttack, Purusottam Singh from service after he was convicted by the Special Judge, Vigilance, Cuttack, for taking bribe, sources said on Wednesday. More

BJP Yuva Morch demands roll back of price hike
By Anurjay Dhal
BHUBANESWAR: The youth wing of the BJP on Thursday held a demonstration and conducted road blockade in Cuttack City demanding immediate roll back of price hike in petroleum products. The protesters blocked the Kolkata-Chennai National Highway and disrupted traffic for several hours. More

Goods train derailed in Orissa 
By Our Correspondent 
BHUBANESWAR: Train services on Wednesday partially affected after nine wagons of a Visakhapatnam bound empty goods train derailed between Baudpur and Kenduapada stations under Khurda Road Railway Division of East Coast Railway.  More

BIBEK BISHAL MEHENA from Saraswati Vidya Mandir Sector-6 , Rourkela Secured 1st Position Photo : Pratap

Toppers set high ambition
By Anurjay Dhal
BHUBANESWAR: Toppers of Orissa Board of Secondary Education on Tuesday chalked out their future plan few minutes after the Board published its Matriculation results.
“I am delighted with the results, it’s out of hard work and perseverance in mind,” attributed topper Bibek Bishal Mehena of Rourkela-2 Saraswati Vidya Mandir, who secured 574 marks in the examinations out of 600. More

Riot accused sentences 2 year jail term

By Our Correspondent 
PHULABANI/BHUBANESWAR, July 1: In the first conviction of the Kandhamal communal riot cases, the additional sessions judge of Fast Track Court No 2 sentenced Chakradhara Mallick of Dampidia village. The accused was sentenced to four years imprisonment and asked to pay a fine of Rs 4,000, and, in case of default, 9 months further imprisonment on charges of setting fire to a house of an SC family during the Kandhamal riots last year. More

Women ransacks foreign liquor shopBy Anurjay Dhal 
BHUBANESWAR: Around 200 women from Satyabhamapur Panchayat under Balianta Police limits on Wednesday ransacked a foreign liquor shop and damaged liquor worth Rs 50,000. More

Utkal Varsity sings MoU to develop traditional medicines
By Anurjay Dhal 
BHUBANESWAR: State’s premier educational institution, the Utkal University on Tuesday singed a Memorandum of Understanding with Central Council for Research in Ayurveda and Siddha, Department of Ayush, a unit of Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to promote traditional medicines in the State. More

VSS medicos up in arms against MCI By Our Correspondent 
SAMBALPUR, : The move of Medical Council of India has irked the entire students’ community of Vir Surendra Sai Medical College and Hospitals here. More

Tension continues at Posco site 
By Anurjay Dhal 
Tension continues for the second consecutive day at the proposed site of Posco-India's steel project in Orissa’sJagatsinghpur. “Situation is very tense but under control and additional forces have been rushed to the troubled site,” a senior police official said. More

Orissa seeks change in royalty policy on minerals
By Our Correspondent
BHUBANESWAR :  Mr Naveen Patnaik CM of Orissa demanded a change in the center’s policy on royalties of mineral resources. In a letter to Dr Manmohan Singh PM of India, Patnaik said that even though 24% of iron ore reserves are in Orissa, the State does not get the expected revenue from it due to center’s policy.
Demanding that royalty on iron ore should be fixed on ad valorem basis, he requested the PM to take into account the recommendations of the group of secretaries on the matter. More

Ramesh exposed BJD’s true face
By Our Correspondent
BHUBANESWAR, : Independent MLA Ramesh Rout has exposed the real face of ruling BJD.The MLA from Athagarh saying that he wants to continue in the post. Ramesh resigned from the Assembly on 19 June from his MLA post. Rout on that day went personally to meet the Speaker and handed over his resignation letter to Speaker Pradip Kumar Amat at the latter’s official residence. In another letter sent to the Speaker of OLA and the BJD President Naveen Patnaik, the independent MLA revealed that he under pressure and threatening situation, he has resigned. More

Orissa cops interrogate Badshad Gang chief
By Anurjay Dhal
BHUBANESWAR: A team of Orissa Police on Monday interrogated self-styled chief of dreaded inter-State gang Jharkhand Badshah Yashwant Sahu aka Balram Sahu and and his associate Rajesh Oraon in Ranchi, police sources said here. The accused were involved in over a dozen incidents of criminal activities in Rourkela and Sundergarh districts, they said. More

Secular Forum holds State convention
By Our Correspondent
BHUBANESWAR: All India Secular Forum on Saturday held its State convention here to discuss various issues to restore complete communal harmony in the State as well as in the country. Noted activist A Ali Engineer and Irfan Engineer attend the meet and advocated for secular curriculum for students to maintain communal harmony across the country. They also demanded a secular system of education across the country to avoid any type of communal violence. Meanwhile, Dhirendra Panda was elected as the State Convener of the Forum while Pramila Swain, Deva Ranjan, S Pattnaik and Hemanta Nayak were among those elected to State Committee of the Forum.

Riot victims start home coming in Orissa
By Our Correspondent
BHUBANESWAR, June 30: Riot victims in Orissa’s tribal dominated Kandhamal district, who have been staying in various relief camps since August last year, have started home coming since the visit of Union Home Minister P Chidambaram, officials claimed on Tuesday.“Around 300 people have returned to their respective villages in past few days. We are expecting rest of the victims to go back to their villages soon,” a senior official said.
Nearly 1,200 victims are still taking shelter in three government-run relief camps, even though no violence has been reported in the region. Kandhamal, about 260 km from here witnessed widespread violence after the murder of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati and four of his aides at his ashram Aug 23 last year.

Massive plantation drive from July
By Our Correspondent
BHUBANESWAR :  The Forest Department of the State Government would launch a massive plantation drive to plant saplings in one lakh hectares of land. Five crore saplings of various varieties including medicinal plants would be planted in different areas from July 7 with an expenditure of about Rs 160 crore, official sources said on Sunday.
The project would begin on the first day of the week-long celebration of the 'Vana Mahostav' with planting of about 25 lakh saplings on a single day. About 20 lakh saplings were planted on a single day last year. Orissa was the second State after Uttar Pradesh to undertake plantation drive involving the masses. It may be noted here that the Mayawati led Government had planted about one crore saplings on a single day in 2007 in UP.

DPCL claims to solve critical cleft case

By Anurjay Dhal
BHUBANESWAR: The Dhamra Port Company Ltd on Sunday claimed to solve a critical cleft left case by arranging treatment of three critically cleft left affected children who were identified from the periphery villages by a survey team of the DPCL-TSRDS health centre at Dosinga in Bhadrak district. At Jehangir Gandhi Hospital of Tata Refractories Ltd (TRL), Belpahar surgery was performed on the three children by experienced plastic surgeons. More

ACUTE POWER CRISIS FUELS INNOVATOR AND GENERATOR RUSH

ASHIS SENAPATI, KENDRAPADA

Acute power crisis in the coastal districts of Kendrapada and Jagatsinghpur boosted the sale of innovators and generators as many persons are being compelled to purchase innovators to get electricity during power cut period in urban areas whereas many farmers in rural areas prefer to hire or purchase generators to irrigate their agricultural lands. More

UTEA opposes HRD Ministry’s move
By Anurjay Dhal
BHUBANESWAR: The United Teachers and Employees Association, a pro-ruling party Teachers’ Body on Saturday came down heavily the move of Union Human Resources Development Minister Kapil Sibal, who is contemplating to abolish Class X examinations. More